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Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Using a distributed VCS for the DOG



On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:31:05AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail@gmail.com> [2008-03-05 07:18]:
> 
> > We are currently using Subversion and I'd like to switch to a
> > distributed VCS as well. I'm sitting in a train right now and I'm
> > feeling the pain of not being able to "$VCS log" and "$VCS diff
> > -rsomething_older".[1]
> > 
> > I'm not really set on any system: Mercurial might be easier to learn, as
> > we will need it anyway for Octave. Git seems to get more and more
> > traction, and there's also darcs, bazaar, ...
> 
> I would restrict the choice to Mercurial and Git.  I do not wish to learn
> soon a fifth VCS.

Mercurial would be the sensible choice, if alioth offers it that will
say. My vote for Mercurial (don't know about its capabilities, this is
just to minimize the overhead of staying in sync with upstream).

Oli



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